We are looking for Facebook editors for the forum's Facebook page.
Show Posts
This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
HAHAHAHAH That is so true. Our neighbor has a big seedling sapodilla whose fruits are like little sand bags. I love those things! The neighbor refuses to eat them, so that leaves big sapodilla bounty for Jeff and the wife :-). I've always been a fan of the pears with stone cells too.gritty,sandy,grainy, with a reddish tone, whatever....that's the kind of texture I prefer. I like the thin skin, potate shape, ones also but they tend too sweet.I rank grit in sapodillas with mealy texture in apples. Neither is desirebale in my book. But hey....if grit does it for you or at least doesn't provide a turn off....you are going to be a lot happpier person in the world of sapodillas!
Harry
Hello Friends,
Here are some current pictures of My Mango Trees. I have an Alphonso, Pickering, Coconut Cream, Lemon Zest, and Pina Colada. They are in a various stages of Flowering and/or Fruiting.
Pina Colada Mango Tree - Is Flowering Heavily but no Fruit Yet
Coconut Cream Mango Tree - Had Flowered Profusely but I removed them all. I just pulled it out of the Greenhouse and it got a Little Sun Burned.
Lemon Zest - Flowering and a Small Mango
Alphonso Mango - Flowering and Lots of Little Mangos
Jacob your mangos look fabulous! Base on what I saw in Mimosa, your Alfonso has a great chance of holding some fruits. I tried the Alfonso in Mimosa and they were absolutely delicious. The fruits are on the small size about the size of a Carrie. From what I was told, Pinha Colada are also small fruits. I'll have to wait until Aug. for mangos I won't let any mangos fruit in containers anymore. Any of those going on the ground this year?
Does anyone have pink fleshed variety of Annoa/cherimoya/atemoya and may be willing to send me some scions for grafting? I can offer my super delicious Cherimoya (sweet, juicy, tart, no graininess) scions in return. Willing to pay for postage.
Please let me know.
Thanks
Joe - is the house still on MLS? I hope your friend pulls through.
But on a side note: I have first dibs btwhas anyone offered to dig/relocate/replace the sugar apple tree with an ornamental tree that may be more appealing to unbeknownst buyer?
Yes, identification of potentially cross pollinated cherimoyas is extremely difficult. Just wanted to see if anyone is familiar with at least one of these babies
Joe: you've got two strikes on you, buddy
#3 is definitely not Booth. The pictures taken with my phone under artificial lights don't really do justice, but in my description you can tell it's not Booth - both on taste & appearance. If overripe, it'd look exactly like this picture taken by Axel from cloudforest.
#7 is not White. Several things I noticed from White that aren't present, or at least not as pronounced, on #7 (a)younger Whites have fine brown hair all over the fruit though hardly seen on fully matured fruits (b)White's skin is thicker (c)protuberances on Whites are more pronounced, giving it more of that rugged look especially with its darker skin(#7 is really pale light green & thin). Depending on how ripe White is, its inside looks an almost perfect shade of white. As far as taste, #7 is a bit more acidic as well.
Here's the typical look of a White
Thanx Greg and JF, I am currently looking at a 6 X 8 greenhouse. Hopefully I will have by the time I get the scions from you JF.
The ones I grow here in Florida taste like a coconut-vanilla honeydew melon. I have done tastings at local Slow Food events and people love them and ask where to buy them. They are really delicious and I could sell every fruit that I grow. I usually eat 3 or 4 every day when they are in season. They are best eaten in a day or 2 after picking. To be truthful, I am not sure if they would fruit in S-CALIF unless they are in greenhouse conditions. They are fairly cold hardy and did very well in our 33 degree cold in 2009 but we have much more humidity that you would even in December. They also produce 2 crops per year.
What a feast!!
The problem in identifying chirimoya cultivars is that the size and shape of the fruit can vary a lot depending from different factors, for example pollination. Because I do not pollinate my Fino de Jete trees, the fruit comes in all kind of shapes..
Hopefully you will share the tricks.
Nice photos. And well protected fruits in their socks. Probably almost all those fruits are from Thailand, except for chempedak probably from Malaysia. Citrus and kiwis may be from China. I see now turning monitor upside down that mangos say Thailand on them.
Oscar
Mango is king of fruits, but cherimoya is queen. Florida's got California beat on mangos, but they've got their cherimoyas, which we can't grow. Someday there will be a really great, world-class atemoya! (I'm hoping.
Eating some great cherimoyas grown right here in Hawaii. Just as good as the California ones, only difference is that here they are about 1/2 the price!
Oscar
You must pay a $1.00 a pound than. They were $1.99 a pound two weeks ago in Super King's Market and I've seen them for $3.00 a pound in Farmers Market all around the Southland....
Are those the regular prices, or just on special prices? Cherimoyas were $5 a pound in California when i lived there 25 years ago!
Oscar
Potato LeafHoppers when it's dry, fungi when it's wet. Do you have potato leafhoppers on your cherimoyas in Hawai'i and California?
Mango is king of fruits, but cherimoya is queen. Florida's got California beat on mangos, but they've got their cherimoyas, which we can't grow. Someday there will be a really great, world-class atemoya! (I'm hoping.
Eating some great cherimoyas grown right here in Hawaii. Just as good as the California ones, only difference is that here they are about 1/2 the price!
Oscar
Greg, very nice.
About 3 years ago I planted a seedling from one my large fruiting Abius and last week I realized that it is now flowering! It's only about 7 feet tall but is still a small tree (see foto). The "father tree" where I got the seed for this one was named the "Jeff Abiu" and also happens to be a seedling that I bought at the Fruit & Spice Pk and also fruited in 4 years. The quality of the fruits is very good although they contain 2 seeds. My large Marisa Abiu produces delicious large fruits with only one seed. I doubt that this "newbie" will set fruit the first year but I will keep my fingers crossed. The last foto shows "Jeff" & "Marisa" fruits from last summer. I think this gives lots of hope to those of you with potted Abius.
Joe, all your plants look amazingly healthy. I hope my plants look as good as yours when they get a little larger. What varieties of Lychee, Longan and Cherimoya are you currently growing? You are like the Harry of SoCal. Please let me know if you ever have a fruit tasting!
Simon
Joe, here is a picture of the sugar apple and African Pride grafts I made with the wood you gave me. Thanks again.. Greg
Cangrejo's Sugar Apple
African Pride
JF,
Thanks again for the scion, I have attempted to graft to a cherimoya rootstock using a splice graft. I gave some of the scion also to Rodney, who is going to try grafting as well.
